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[Draft] Inaccessible News Page - Barrier Descriptions

The following list provides a summary of some of the accessibility barriers shown on the inaccessibile news page . A more detailed analysis can be found in the evaluation report for the inaccessible news page. This page is part of the Before and After Demonstration.

Accessibility barriers shown on the inaccessible news page include:

• Reading order is distorted without style sheets
• Document code contains deprecated markup
• Quotation markup is used for formatting effects
• Font sizes are fixed and may not be expandable
• Data tables do not contain sufficient markup code

Document Information

Version: DRAFT 23 September, 2009
Editors: Shadi Abou-Zahra and the Before and After Demo Task Force (BAD TF) of the Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG). Developed with support from WAI-AGE, a project of the European Commission IST Programme. [see change log]

[Contacting WAI] Feedback welcome to wai-eo-editors@w3.org (a publicly archived list).

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